Re: Email Password Expire Notifications

My company uses a scheduled task that runs some .NET code that finds the
expiring passwords and emails the users based on our business rules for
expiration notification. This code is implemented based on the code we show
for finding password expiration on our book (see link below). The
implementation of this is detailed in ch 10, which happens to be the freebie
download chapter from the publisher. It is linked on the main page of the
site. The code samples may also be downloaded for free.

If you don't want to write a little .NET app for this and would rather write
a script, it will probably be easier for you to use a tool like Joe
Richard's oldcmp tool (from www.joeware.net) than to try to execute the
queries directly in script, as formating the queries is a little painful in
VBS. You would just take the output from Joe's tool to feed that into your
script for doing the notifications.

You might also be able to buy something if you don't want to write anything
yourself. I can understand that, although I don't have an immediate
recommendation. Part of the trick with this kind of thing is that you
generally need to send your users to a website where they can change their
password (since they don't log into the domain, they'll need some sort of UI
for this!), so you'll need at least a little configuration flexibility with
whatever tool you end up with.

HTH,

Joe K.

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Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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"George Evans" <noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would like to have users emailed when their password are nearing
expiration, say 1 week before. We have many remote users that only use
POP3 email and I see no way in Active Directory to inform these types of
users.

What sort of solutions are available? We are using Windows 2003 /
Exchange 2003 servers.

Thanks,

George



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